Are you ready for change?
If you’re ready for lasting and meaningful change, I can help with letting go of unwanted habits,
behaviours and beliefs.
My programs are tailored for you because no two people have the same set of unique experiences, issues, world views, and responses.
You might have already explored multiple treatment options, read all the books, paid for self-help courses, and still be feeling discouraged by a lack of progress.
I provide a supportive, solutions focused way to help you identify barriers to change and develop practical strategies for moving you forward to your goal.
Services
Areas of Support
I work with clients on a range of changes, including:
Anxiety Management
Support for IBS
Digestion and Gut Health
Quit Sugar
Restful and restorative sleep
Motivation and confidence
Quit Smoking or Vaping
Quit Gambling
Stress Management
Study and performance improvement
Weight loss and management
Tailored Programs
Everybody has their own unique life history, experiences, beliefs and behaviours. When somebody comes to me with a goal in mind I ask a lot of questions to help us both clarify and confirm the goal we work towards.
Hypnotherapy works to relax your conscious, critical mind, while I use stories, metaphors and suggestions to tell your unconscious mind to find the best way of making the changes that result in you achieving your goal.
There are many verbal and non-verbal cues that can help me assess the best way to help each person, and personalise each session accordingly. Putting someone at ease, and allowing them to be comfortable in the space, means they are better able to relax and readily absorb suggestions that guide them to change.
About Me
I’m a diploma trained clinical hypnotherapist, whose health and wellbeing studies began back in 1999 are ongoing as new research is published all the time.
My holistic approach can incorporate knowledge from several other modalities including energetic healing, nutrition, TCM, Touch For Health Kinesiology and colour therapy. The programs I write for clients are tailored for them, as are the tools I provide to use between sessions.
My primary focus has always been nutrition and gut-health and I was privileged to work with and learn from specialists in integrative medicine. I wrote a weekly wellbeing page, ‘Well Balanced’, for a print magazine, and trained with the major health supplement companies while managing a large health food store in Sydney.
My work complements existing healthcare and wellbeing services, and helps people gain confidence in their ability to achieve positive change. I want people to have healthy, non-invasive options to achieve their goals.
Knowing the lasting benefits of hypnotherapy, when I was finally ready to quit smoking I booked two sessions with a hypnotherapist, to lock in the change. That was April 2018 and after 30+ years of smoking, I’ve been a non-smoker since.
Years later, like many people, my mental health suffered after Melbourne’s Covid lockdowns. I was weighing up options to deal with this and decided on hypnotherapy, so I reached out to the same hypnotherapist and booked in a three-month online program with her.
I would log on for sessions even while I was (finally!) travelling again. These pics of me ziplining and hanging off the Skytower in NZ are the result of hypnotherapy getting me out my front door and back into the world. You won’t need to get airborne to benefit from hypnotherapy but engaging with the world again and remembering the bigger picture was exactly what I needed.
I choose to specialise in hypnotherapy because I want to give people this safe option to change or let go of things that are impacting their lives. After taking some time out to further my study in clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy, I opened my Castlemaine practice and began working with the local community.
Make a Booking
CLINIC HOURS:
Monday 10.30am to 6pm
Tuesday 10.30am to 4pm
Wednesday 10.30am to 6pm
Other times available by arrangement
Click the relevant image below to make a booking, or the Link To Booking Page button to go directly to my calendar.
BOOK A FREE PHONE CHAT
You can book a no-obligation phone chat, to discuss what you would like to change, and whether hynotherapy is right for you.
It’s a warm introduction and an opportunity to ask questions about the process, or what a program involves.
Allow around 20 minutes.
There is no charge for this service.
YOUR FIRST SESSION (90 minutes)
In this first session, we discuss your current issues, any medical history, lifestyle, routines, and habits.
I will outline what to expect in this session, and the different levels of hypnosis.
Together we will define a clear goal and move into a hypnotherapy session that will start moving you towards that goal.
There is usually at least one self-help tool provided for you to use between sessions.
SUBSEQUENT SESSIONS (60 minutes)
In each session we build on previous work and continue to move you towards your goal.
Increased self-awareness through hypnosis can provide clear insight into your habits and behaviours, so it’s possible to experience quite significant change between sessions.
This is quite normal and we wil take time to review what is different for you since our last session.
BOOK AN ONLINE SESSION (60 minutes)
This link will be disabled until I recommence online sessions later this year.